dirac Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 An NPR story on ballet student Ashton Edwards. Quote It was beginning to feel too limiting, says Edwards. What he really wanted to do was to dance en pointe, the technique where you dance on the tips of your toes using special ballet shoes. Link to comment
dirac Posted January 19, 2021 Author Share Posted January 19, 2021 A biographical sketch of Poul Gnatt, founder of the Royal New Zealand Ballet. Quote Before moving to New Zealand, Gnatt had built an impressive resume. He graduated into the Royal Danish Ballet in 1939 with his sister Kirsten Ralov. During World War II, while still with the company, he joined a resistance movement to help British special operations parachutists find safe havens in German-occupied Denmark. Link to comment
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